There is no "I" in "You"

[Thumpalumpacus]

Anatta is bullshit.

The self is a composite model which the brain maintains composed of things like our history, body knowledge, goals, and plans.  It is not available to introspection as such and we access it seamlessly through a kind of recall.  It is a dynamic model and thus is constantly changing as new data dictates it change.  We 'are' the model.

I'm of the opinion that much of the problem of trying to pin down the self comes from assuming that it need have an objective existence, either as a thing or a process.  What if the self is just an idea in the mind, an idea that we have no control over, a model of something that the mind creates for us?  

Nick Humphries has a similar idea -- that consciousness is the act on one (or several) part(s) of the brain observing each other in action.

I'm not sure how true it is, but it makes sense to me.